Tools mentioned by Patrick Collison
Software and services Patrick Collison has mentioned across podcast appearances.
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Smalltalk
“Lisp machines, Smalltalk, and Mathematica unified runtime, debugging, and editing into one surface. He advocates overlaying live production profiling data, error logs, and common variable values directly onto code lines.”
Ruby
“Stripe's foundational technical decisions — Ruby, MongoDB, and API design — their lasting consequences 15 years later. Stripe achieved 99.99986% API availability in its most recent reported year using Ruby and MongoDB, technologies chosen on a couch by two founders.”
Dvorak
“Collison reveals that Stripe employees still cannot use each other's computers because both he and his brother John independently optimized their keyboard layouts using genetic algorithms — and both arrived at Dvorak, which they now use exclusively.”
Mathematica
“Lisp machines, Smalltalk, and Mathematica unified runtime, debugging, and editing into one surface.”
CRISPR
“Collison frames three converging technologies — improved sequencing (read), transformers (think), and CRISPR/base editing (write) — as forming a complete biological Turing loop.”
MongoDB
“Stripe's foundational technical decisions — Ruby, MongoDB, and API design. Stripe achieved 99.99986% API availability using Ruby and MongoDB, technologies chosen on a couch by two founders.”
Lisp machines
“Lisp machines, Smalltalk, and Mathematica unified runtime, debugging, and editing into one surface.”